LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO (CDZ) is a modern Italian progressive band that formed in Genoa in 2007. CDZ is named after a well-known Italiannovel, the title of which translates into English as ''Zeno's conscience''. The book is largely concerned with the paradoxes of human behaviourand is considered to be the first psychoanalytic novel. It represents the journal of the unreliable narrator Zeno Cosini as he undergoespsychoanalysis, and this contrasts with the efficacy of CDZ's seventies-inspired musical narratives. CDZ initially played a modern style ofprogressive music that was influenced by the gian ...read more

LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO (CDZ) is a modern Italian progressive band that formed in Genoa in 2007. CDZ is named after a well-known Italiannovel, the title of which translates into English as ''Zeno's conscience''. The book is largely concerned with the paradoxes of human behaviourand is considered to be the first psychoanalytic novel. It represents the journal of the unreliable narrator Zeno Cosini as he undergoespsychoanalysis, and this contrasts with the efficacy of CDZ's seventies-inspired musical narratives. CDZ initially played a modern style ofprogressive music that was influenced by the giants of UK prog rock. In fact, while they were working on their debut album last year theyrecorded a track for the YES tribute project ''Tales from the Edge''. However with the departure a couple of years earlier of the band's originalguitarist, Matteo Malvezzi, CDZ's sound drew closer to that of the classic Italian bands such as BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, althoughmodified with a slight Neo-prog edge. The various members of CDZ themselves have a fairly illustrious pedigree and number the likes ofNARROW PASS, IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE, FINISTERRE and MALOMBRA among their former bands. « hide